WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Defense Delivers Again! 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.360 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:19.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.760 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World, of course at 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:28.479 the Star in Frisco, blowing to the goal line. Got 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:36.080 picture and now your hosts, Isaiah stand Back, Patrick Walker, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:54.360 Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeomans go, Dallas how Boys. It 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.120 is a victory Monday here on Talking Cowboys from a 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:03.800 Star in Frisco. The Cowboys dethrone the Super Bowl Champs 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.160 twenty two to tend the final score. As we welcome 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.000 you in presented by a Black Rifle Coffee Company to 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:15.240 the fourth Victory Monday of the twenty twenty two campaign. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.520 Glad you're with us here on Talking Cowboys. Rob Phillips, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.840 Isaiah stand Backpatrick Nose Walker, We've got Chris Beam in 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.640 the backup. Kyle Yeoman's glad you're with us, And gentlemen, 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.440 this one feels a little bit sweeter because everyone is sweeter. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.560 I mean, every time it goes, you get one more. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.240 You continue to stack wins upon wins upon wins. It 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.319 feels much better as you go along. However, this one 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.360 feels good, Isaiah, because it's against the reigning Super Bowl champs, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.760 and because your defense got the job done. Again. Defense 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.600 is the leaders on this team. These guys, We've talked 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.160 about it in recent weeks. These guys are simply just 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.200 seemingly unstoppable. It's a lot to deal with when you 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.000 have the personnel and you have the wisdom that's kind 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.960 of the director behind everything, kind of you know, controlling 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.040 the pinocchio strings back there, and he's just utilizing all 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.720 his assets. It's it's hard for an offense to come 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.160 back this, and I'm not sure how you come back 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.679 this when you have that amount of pressure. You you 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.000 don't allow them to establish running games. You don't allow 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:21.160 them to sit back and throw the ball. So it's like, 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.080 what do you do offensively against this defense to get 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.959 anything going? And as long as the Dallas Cowboys continue 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.399 to play this type of defense, it doesn't matter how 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.880 much their offense shows up or doesn't show up. You know, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.760 field goals seemingly will win you the ball game. Go ahead, listen. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.760 If this defense continues playing like this, UH Congress is 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.799 going to have to convene a special session to investigate 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.480 what's going on. I mean, at the end of the 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.960 day and at the beginning of the day and in 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:54.880 the middle of the day. This defense is absolutely terrorizing teams. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.320 And we said going into this game, obviously we're still 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.800 about one Now, we're about one week now from you know, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.760 the nickname votes, right, But I said before I dropped mine, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.320 before we dropped hours, I wanted to see what they 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.600 did against the Rams, and then I want to see 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.000 what they do against the Eagles. Another big test coming 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.839 against the Eagles. We'll get to that later this week. 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.679 But to go into Sofa against the rain of Super 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:21.600 Bowl champs and hold them to only ten points. Now, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:25.839 Cooper Cup, he had one twenty five, but seventy five 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.480 of that came on on one play. And it's funny 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.720 because two, not two plays before he broke that run, 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.040 I said to myself that, hey, they have a cap 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:37.120 on Cooper Cup. I was like, hey, I might be 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.600 jinxing it, so I'm not gonna say it out loud. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:39.880 And if I had said it out loud, I would 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:41.600 have thought I jinxed it. But I didn't. Goodness, I 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.080 didn't say that out hadn't happened anyway, right, But that's 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.840 seventy that's all your fault. It's basically what I'm gatherings 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.000 I heard. Yeah that was if that's if that's the 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.480 worst thing that happened yesterday, and it turns out that 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.440 was the worst thing that happened yesterday, I will take 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.560 that all day long. The defense played stout. Um you 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.520 had the at Well, the deep past at Well, which 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.960 couldn't have been deep defended. I mean Diggs was right there, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.800 perfect coverage. Stafford just dropped that throw. It was unreal. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.880 So those two things, notwithstanding, Cowboys kept Acres in the 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.640 running game and Check. For the most part, they kept 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.800 they kept Higbee and Check. Welcome back jay Ron curse right. Uh, 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.400 this defense top to bottom. I mean you even got 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.600 Michael Parsons dealing with you know, growing tightness, and he's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.080 like putting me back in coach, so I can punctuate 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.440 this game with a sack fumbo. Oh man, it's just 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:36.120 a beautiful sight to see defense. Is they stir the 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.960 bloody drink as when Mike McCarthy's PG that was sorry 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.159 so our UK listeners, Yeah, that's what That's what British 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.719 Mike McCarthy would have said. He's right. I mean, you 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.360 guys hit on everything. I mean, I'm I'm stunned by 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.120 like both the predictability of this Cowboys defense Cowboys team 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:58.880 and their unpredictability they are. Nobody could have predicted four 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.600 straight wins with Cooper Rush is the starting quarterback. I 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.200 don't care how good the defense has played. If you 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.160 told me in May when the schedule came out that 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.280 Cooper Rush was going to be the winning starting quarterback 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.600 against both Super Bowl quarterbacks from last year, nobody would 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:12.960 have bought it. And I'd love to know what the 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.040 percentage was for ESPN Sports Analytics for percentage to win 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.840 and stuff like that. That's this league. This league is 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.960 so unpredictable. But what's predictable about this team is what 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.400 the defense does every single week. So far, for five weeks, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.680 they have not allowed any of their opponents to reach 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.960 twenty points, the first time that a Dallas defense has 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.479 done that since nineteen seventy two. And that's in a 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.479 different era, by the way. I mean that. You know 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.719 there was no Cooper Cup and Sean McVay style offenses 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.560 to defend back then. Seventy two was the last time 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.320 five or less touchdowns in five games to start the season, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:47.320 so one touchdown a game. Offensive lines they faced some 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.640 that have struggled, no doubt, they've been some favorable matchups. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.120 But I think this defense is for real. I think 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.120 we all do. And if you don't, if you're not 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.000 buying it yet, great news. Sunday Night Football. Best team 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.200 in the league, they're playing based on record. Who has 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.799 a great offensive line, by the way, So we'll find 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.240 out real quick once again with the biggest test of 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.880 the season to date, whether it's for real. And I 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.600 think it is. And that's the thing about this matchup 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.520 and this whole week. We're gonna preview it because I 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.640 feel like a lot of people are already looking ahead. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:18.560 They put this one in the review mirror. Cool, you 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.680 just beat the Super Bowl champs. Great, all right, fun, Well, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.880 we've got some tests on the horizon and charrival. It's 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.240 a Sunday night football game. It's to this point in 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:32.760 the season. Find me a more high profile game. There 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.800 hasn't been for everybody in their moms, no way that 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.880 there's a more prime profile game at this point in 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.760 the year than the Cowboys and Eagles coming up on 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.599 Sunday Night Football. But it is something to be said because, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.479 like you said, even if you would have told me 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.600 that Dak Prescott would have gone four and one through 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.560 the first five weeks of the season prior to the 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.160 season starting, I don't know if I would have believed you. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:56.040 I really wouldn't. Because you had the Bengals, you had 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.000 the Rams, you had the Buccaneers. You might have won 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.240 two or three games there maybe for possibly, but not 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.000 in the way that they have done it and the 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.440 way that this defense continues to play. I think you 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.840 outline that really well, the predictable unpredictability, because you know 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.360 the defense is going to show up, but are they 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.560 gonna do it in the same way week to week? 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:20.160 Now dan Quinn switches things up and he did it 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.840 all day yesterday to keep LA off balance, and they 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.560 got after Matthew Stafford because of it. And it goes 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.920 back to what we were saying last week. And I 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.560 cannot see and I know it's possible. Of course, it's possible. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.600 It's it's football. It's to indefinitely possible. Of course, it's possible. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.720 This defense is going to have a bad day. Of 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:41.280 course it's possible. Right, of course, it's possible. Another offense 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.040 is going to you know figure out a way to 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.480 tee off on a particular misspects, of course as possible, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.560 but expecting it. No, I no longer expect that that's 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:51.800 going to happen. I expect weekend a week out that 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.440 Dan Quinn and this defense, regardless of what adjustments need 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.920 to be made, whoever is on the field, is going 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.480 to get the job done. And then the only question 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.880 becomes weekly until that gets back and then we see 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.600 prime deck back, because we're not going to see prime 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.360 deck initially might take a game or two. The question 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.520 is is the offense going to be able to avoid 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.840 making the mistakes that cut the defense and the special 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.280 teams off at the knees and they continue to escape 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.440 those mistakes, be it with the lepra con on Cooper 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.920 Rush's shoulder, as Rob Phillips so eloquently put it, or 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.800 whatever other means. The fact is the defense is going 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.200 to continue to win you games as long as you 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.120 You don't even have to match serve. All you gotta 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.800 do is just don't mess it up. If you're the offense, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.080 just don't screw it up. Twenty sacks through the first 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:38.160 five games, first time since nineteen eighty seven, since a 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.920 guy you might have heard of him, Tom Landry was 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.360 the coach. It was pretty good. Yeah, so were off 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:45.959 to a start. And Mickey pointed out to me on 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.240 the plane in the ride home, you might have to 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.200 go further back than that, just because eighty seven was 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.120 the strike year, which was kind of a different year, 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.600 obviously a throwaway type year, so it may go to 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.560 go back further than that. But yeah, I mean, you 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.280 can go down the list of the stats and you're like, 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.680 holy cow, they're right there with San Francisco and Buffalo 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.960 right now. So far as the best defenses in the league, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.160 I mean, no doubt about it. You've got teams up 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.040 there with one loss. There are four teams with one 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.559 loss or less in the NFC right now. It's the Cowboys, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.160 the Eagles, the Giants, who you've beaten already, which is 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.920 really interesting, and then the Minnesota Vikings, who you'll see 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.319 later in the year. On the other side, for the AFC, 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.480 there's only one team and that's the Buffalo Bills. So 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.920 you're in the conversation right now at least record wise, 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.800 as a top five team in the NFL. I'm not 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.000 saying that's the case. I'm not saying putting expectations on 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.200 it just yet. But that's where you are, factual, that's there. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.440 Are they showing that they could be that when they're 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.640 fully healthy. Though, did you were you convinced, especially offensively yesterday, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.760 that they can continue to grow and get better, because 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.000 I felt like the offense kind of took a step 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:54.920 back last or last night you put in that context, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.680 I mean, I think about the best teams in the league. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.480 I'm gonna throw Buffalo in here right off the back. 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.000 So because Buffalo those defense has proven to you for 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.480 the last few years, much like the Dallas Cowboys defense has, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.880 that they're real and they're to be they're not to 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.480 be played with. Okay, they're Leslie Fraser is doing an 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.679 amazing job obviously out there as a defensive coordinator. He 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.559 has a lot of really good defensive backs. They're stronger, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:17.120 I mean, they're just they're strong, you know, they're they're 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.480 they're they're stronger defense. Offensively, their lights out. Yeah, they're 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.079 they're bad days better than Dallas's great days seemingly right now. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.440 So that is a team that you put them in 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.040 that category. Now. Obviously Dallas has knocked off last year's 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.440 two depending Super Bowl appearing teams. But I don't think 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.240 there's any there's no argument that those teams don't look 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.560 like anything resembling of what they look like. They're two 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.200 and three now, they're not looking They both lost this week. 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.160 So I mean the reality is, I mean, it is 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.360 still you can statman still stands true. You beat Cincinnati, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.960 you beat the Ramps. Awesome. The team that I would 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.880 say that is showing up like you expecting to show 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:53.760 up and they're not even being that great right now 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.000 as Tampa. Tampa is still up and down right now. Um, 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.120 but that's the one true test that I guess you 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.920 could say that you've had this year of a solid 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.840 team that's playing like a solid team, and they're still wavering. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:08.080 This is the big game coming up, you know, like 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.000 this game last night, we were in the studio watching 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.640 It's like, okay, yeah, you beat the Rams, like there, 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.040 you know, like you expected the defense to do that. 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:16.640 Their officer line you coming into it. You know, the 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.000 Rams office line was pretty much close to composts as well, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.880 and they showed it. They showed it right, I mean, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.560 they pretty much got disrespected yesterday. You pretty much put 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.760 a cap on Cooper Cup. Aside from the one time 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.160 that Trayvon Diggs went back to last year Trayvon and 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.920 started taking risk versus man coverage. He has to just understand, hey, 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.520 understand the coverage, Understand where your help is to be 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.200 able to take calculator risks. But for the most part 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.760 they shut him down. It's an offense though. Like you mentioned, Kyle, 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:47.120 this offense is not putting out right now. And yesterday 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.679 they only got down to the red zone twice. They 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.559 were over two in the red zone, got down there twice, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.400 didn't do anything, relied on field goals. They ran the 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.960 ball effectively, right Obviously, some a lot of that came 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.640 from Tony Poller, just like we're saying, Hey, Cooper Cup 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.160 had a good game, but most of it came off 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.560 a one run. Well, Dallas had a good running game, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.280 but most of it came from Tony Poller on the 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.360 one run as well. So you have to look at 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.720 it objectively and understand that this offense is struggling. And 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.920 what I've been saying for the past few weeks is, hey, 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.480 what happens when your defense just shows up like any 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.160 other defense in the league, because they're entitled to that, 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:21.839 and they had the game that Patrick's talking about. And 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.160 they have the game that Patrick's talking about. You not 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.120 even a bad game, right, Just just what do they 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.959 just show up in a just a normal, normal defensive 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.640 game and your offense is putting out like this and 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.920 everybody's talking about, oh, you know, when Dad gets back, 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.320 it is gonna be even crazier. We had a healthy 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:38.720 DAK Week one and the offense didn't do much of nothing. 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.880 So I understand the anticipation to understand what everybody's hoping for, 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.199 But the reality is consistently, whether it's Dak or whether 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.400 it's it's Cooper Rush, this offense has not clicked, not 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:54.760 one time yet this year. I'll say this to one 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.280 thing that you pointed out, you said, okay, well, yeah, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.520 they beat the Rams. I'm going to turn the other 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.320 way on this one because going into this game, we 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.479 said definitively this was the biggest test for the Cowboys 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.800 thus far, and Cooper Rush specifically. Now, I would say this, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.600 as far as individual assessment, Cooper Rush didn't pass that test. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:15.600 He didn't fail it because leprocomics show he didn't fail 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.400 the test, but he didn't pass the test either. You 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:19.840 talk about one hundred and two yards, ten for sixteen passing, 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.760 no interceptions, so he didn't fail, no fumbles, so he 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:28.640 didn't fail. No touchdowns, so he didn't pass so see right, no, see, 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:32.120 But the what the offense did was they leaned on 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.640 the running game and the fifty seven yard touchdown from 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.320 Tony Pollard that was a good chunk of that. So, 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:37.680 like you said, if we're going to give it the 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.319 cup for the seventy five, we're going to give it too. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.800 But when you look at the twenty two attempts from 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.839 Ezekiel Elliott, another eight attempts from pump Tony Poller, that's 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.040 thirty rushing attempts for nearly one hundred and seventy yards 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:54.800 against Okay, the Rams offensive line was in shambles. Their 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.640 defensive line was not in shambles. Right. I love how 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.839 they adapted and stuck with it because initially they saw 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.600 they couldn't match up against Aaron Donald. Tyler Smith got 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:09.199 beat badly on two separate occasions, and he didn't fail. That. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.920 To me, you can't fail going against Aaron Donald. You 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.960 have the pass or it's Aaron Donald. Right. So, but 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:16.959 what the Cowboys did after that, second sac. You saw 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.080 Donald didn't get another sack the remainder of the game. 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.520 No other defensive lineman for the Rams got a sack 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.720 in that game. The only other sack came from Jalen 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.720 Ramsey on you know, Tony Poll missed that assignment in 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:35.120 the backfield. But the offense did exactly enough to not fail. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.960 My point being, we can't say it was the biggest 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.600 test thus far going in and then they they win 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:44.840 as a team, and then we say, oh, well, you 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.440 know they did beat the Rams. Okay, well, yeah, said, well, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.840 I know, going back till these my comments in particular, 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.800 we said that's gonna be the biggest test in terms 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.480 of dominant players individual dominant players, not holistically as a 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.880 holistic defense. But they had one goom at the first level, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.320 one goon at the second level, and one goon at 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.360 the third level. Right, That's at least what I when 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.600 I was starting about old Donald Wagner in Rams, right, 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.440 and all those and yeah, and all those guys pretty 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.160 much had good games. I'm not gonna I don't think 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.040 we can see here and say think Wagner probably had 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.360 the lesser game. It was he didn't have splash plays, right, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.960 I mean, I don't know how. Yeah, he dropped his 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.960 one splash, but he had an opportunity. But I think 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.920 when we talk about it like that, like that's what 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.720 we're talking about it in that regard, when you think 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.880 about the Dallas offense, if you take away Armstrong's uh 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.080 you know, strip sack and d laws you know, fumble, 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.480 fumble recovery for a touchdown, Dallas scored one touchdown, two 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.560 field goals, right Dorant ten points. Yeah, So I'm like, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.680 this offense, this offense was not successful to that point. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.880 Let's not fool ourselves to think that they were successful 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.600 when it was not successful. We're saying they didn't fail, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.240 and that's not going to be a enough That's so 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.600 that's what I'm saying. Like that, like we've been leaning 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.720 on that they're not failing, they're not feeling last the 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.200 week before this past week, two interceptions got called back. 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.320 That was about to be failed. That was gonna be 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.480 a fail, right, Luckily it didn't happen this time. Why 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.120 could they say, oh, no, we saw what the interior 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.400 pressure did the cooper last last week. We're gonna take 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:07.600 the ball out of his hands. We're gonna throw the 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:09.520 ball sixteen times a day and we're gonna run it 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:16.520 thirty Yeah, I know what they say about look sometimes. Yeah, 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:18.320 I mean, I guess I'm the one that's been I've 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:20.440 kind of graded this offense on a curve with with 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:24.200 Cooper Rush. I've just constantly reminded myself this guy's barely 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:27.080 played in the NFL. Managed the game and that's one 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:28.880 thing he did do well. He did not turn the 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.200 ball over, and it's just enough. It's just enough. Now 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.880 I'm I'm anticipating. That's why it's important for Dak to 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:38.080 come back when Dak is ready, Because when Dak is 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.680 ready and one percent, I do think this is a 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.760 much better offense Week one. Notwithstanding, I think he's gonna 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.720 be able to get more than three guys the ball. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.240 I mean, only Ceedee Lamb, Michael Gallup and Noah Brown 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.360 had a catch in this game. No tight ends, no 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.680 running backs. Dalton Schultz banged up clearly in this game. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.000 He came back, but but that knee is bothering him. 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.000 Um his mobile. I just think they're going to be 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.960 a better offense with Dak Prescott, but he's gonna have 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:04.399 to get up to speed and I don't think you 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.280 want to rush him back into that situation. So I've 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.720 been grading on a curve, but um, there's no doubt 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.399 they've got to get more production when they play a 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.679 team like the Philadelphia Eagles offensively. Want to answer you, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:16.920 and to answer your question, Coyle, the I don't think 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.399 the offense as a whole took a step back in 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.560 this game. Um, I think the passing attack took a 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.320 step back in this game. If you want to talk 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.440 about it, A drop from Lamb, a drop from Gallop 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:31.320 Gallup didn't make up forward fantastic. Yeah, but that that 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.160 first one from Gallup you could still be going CD 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:40.600 also dropped. So the passing attack took a step back 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.400 from week four, the rushing attack took a step forward 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.480 from week four. And guess what the scale balanced it, 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.800 sof Out and the Cowboys got to win. We've been 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.840 on this show saying it before, Isaiah, You've been a 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.880 big proponent of it, of run the football, run it consistently, 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:58.919 stick through it all the way through, no matter what 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:00.920 the game looks like. Run the football because it sets 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.280 up play action, It opens up your offense, It gives 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.520 you so many more option defense, it helps your defense. Yeah, 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.840 it certainly did in this one, But why does it 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.080 feel like they are taking that step back offensively, at 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:15.120 least in a week like this whenever they did run 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:16.560 the football and they stuck with it and they were 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:19.120 able to continue that through four quarters. Well, when you're 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:21.600 watching the film, there's a lot of pass attempts early 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.280 in the game. They threw it around a little bit 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.080 in the first and second quarter, and then they got 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:26.679 into the third and they said no, no no, no, no, no no, no, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.359 run it, keep away, over and over and over and over. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.560 It was keepaway, beautiful, that's what it was. It was keaway. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.639 And that's okay, that's successible ball. When you're playing against 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:36.920 a team that can't get things going offensively. It doesn't 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.680 mean that's to compliment you football, right, you control what 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:41.119 you can control offensively. You run the freaking ball, you 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.399 get an early lead, you get a gift. Okay, you 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:45.400 get a gift, right, and if yeah, you got yeah, 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.720 you got a few gifts. Absolutely, you got the strips, 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:49.920 the strip act, and then you got the block block point. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:51.960 So at that point in time, you're like, shoot, let's 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.159 not mess this thing up. Let's let's run it. It 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:56.960 was run the ball, and that's that's what they did. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.359 They just played keepaway. But that keepaway mentality should be 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.760 the mentality every week for these guys in terms of 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.680 being dedicated to the run thirty times in the game. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.320 Obviously was good enough yesterday, but that should be the 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.639 case all the time when you have that two headed 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.080 monster back there. Now, obviously they're still figuring out the 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.680 offensive line and all those things blas blah blah blah blahsa, 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.120 but that is a winning strategy for the Dallas Cowboys. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:19.720 And I think as you're trying to get these guys 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.720 more confidence up front, I think, as you're trying to 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.320 get Cooper Rush some protection, as you're trying to keep 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.000 the defense nice and fresh with their one, two, three 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.399 defensive lines that they're coming with, it doesn't really matter. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:34.320 All those things played compliments to successful ball. But I'm 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:36.320 gonna keep saying it. I know people call me a hater, 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:38.800 you call me whatever you want. It's not enough, and 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.879 it's it's really not enough. Teams are still figuring out 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.879 who the heck they are. Teams are still making a 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.199 justice based upon their person nails from this year. You 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.120 talk about really good teams from last year. They seemingly 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:50.960 suck right now. They're not gonna suck the whole year. 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.040 They're not gonna suck the whole The Cincinnati aren't gonna 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:54.600 suck the whole year. The Rams are gonna suck the 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.359 whole year. You know, these teams aren't gonna suck the 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.240 whole year. So somebody Dallas has the second easiest schedule 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.760 in the league this year, which is awesome in terms 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.520 of strength of schedule. So you take advantage of that 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.400 and you knock these teams out, but there are going 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:07.600 to be to Philadelphia Eagles that pop up on your schedule. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.840 It's like, Okay, we're gonna need to score more than 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.639 than one touchdown. There's a couple of teams like that 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.400 on the schedule. Yeah, And I said it like right 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:18.800 off the top. I mean, they they have gotten some 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:22.439 matchups on the front line where it's been nice, like 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.720 guys that are offensive lines that are young, or offensive 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:27.720 lines that are banged up, or offensive lines just aren't 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.040 very good. That's why I think Sunday is a great test. 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.239 But I still think I mean, I think they're for real. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.080 One thing I'll say about the offense that that does 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.000 impress me. Every time they need something from Cooper Rush 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.760 in this offense, they seem to get it, you know. Rams, Yeah, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.320 Rams take a ten nine lead, they answer Rushed with 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.280 the completion and the Pollard's touchdown. My favorite drive, to 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.280 Isaiah's point, it was a boring drive. Fourth quarter, five 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.760 minutes to go, nine plays, thirty five yards, run, run, run, run, run, 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.320 kick the field goal I don't care about. There was 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:58.119 a debate on Twitter in the press box about that 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.080 go up twenty two ten, give me the point to 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.479 go up twelve points with five minutes left. Choke this 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:04.080 game away, and that's what they did well, and they 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.680 forced that that field goal. Initially it's like, oh my gosh, 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.520 it doesn't put you up by more than two scores. 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:10.960 But if you don't kick the field goal, a touchdown 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:12.920 and a field goal wins it, whereas if you kick 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:15.040 the field goal, you need two touchdowns to win it. Right, 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:21.360 take the Mayweather approach, slow, methodical, boring, watch, but it's effective. 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.280 Welcome down. Isaiah is right, and we talked about this 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.359 after I think the Washington game. You're looking at it 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:30.040 from a player's perspective. Who's going in the film room today, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.159 and saying this is not going to cut it in 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.640 January because we expect to be there and we've got 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.159 to be better than that. I totally get that. I 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.879 just think for this particular what they're dealing with right now, offensively, 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:45.760 I take it, take it, and I think the best 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.280 is yet to come with the forty million dollars man 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.679 coming back. If he's right, and and that's why I 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.280 think if you're a fan, you should be excited. Notwithstanding 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.719 it has to improve and exactly and Isaiah is correct, 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.119 And I'll just expand on on Okay, we don't have 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:04.200 to always just say he's correct. We can, but it 0:22:04.320 --> 0:22:07.200 is keeping us grounded here. I mean it's right because 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.400 he's correct in that the teams you're seeing now, as 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:13.120 far as the struggles with Cincinnati and Los Angeles, you're 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.679 not going pretty probably likely not going to see them 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:19.000 later in the season. They'll get it figured out. Um. Contrarily, 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.480 the Eagles aren't going to be undefeated going into the 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:24.600 back end of the season. They're gonna lose several games, 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:29.359 right and it could start us right Aska Giants, right. Um. 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.760 But what I would say is the same applies. The 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:34.760 same that applies for those other teams. Applies to the 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.399 Cowboys as well. We're talking about a team that it 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:40.959 does have a backup quarterback. They just lost Jason Peters 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.000 really before they could even you know, unleash him. Tylas 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.560 Smith is a rookie, he's playing very well, has some 0:22:46.640 --> 0:22:50.119 growing pains against Aaron Donald. Hell, they're you know, multi 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:54.000 time Pro bowlers that have growing pains to that point, 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:56.840 real quickly, look at the first past play of the 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:58.800 entire game. That's all I'm gonna say. Just look at 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:01.760 the first pass ten for Cooper Rush and watch Jack 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:04.600 Martin go up against Aaron Donald, and that'll change your 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:06.919 mind on how Tyler Smith. And there you go. My 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:11.240 point being the Cowboys aren't whole. They're getting more so 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:13.800 on defense, and the defense is still dominant even though 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:16.120 they're not completely hold, but they're getting there. The offense 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:19.560 is wildly not whole, especially when you're talking about the 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:23.520 gaping position of QB one that's not there yet. So 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:25.879 the Cowboys are figuring things out as well. They're figuring 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:27.879 out their identity as well, and they won't truly know 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:30.920 their identity until that comes back and they get that rolling. 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:33.160 But I do find an interest in that from a 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:38.199 science standpoint. Cowboys finished yesterday's game with exactly thirty carries 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.960 between Pollard and Zeke, not two weeks ago. McCarthy said, 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:47.600 he wants to see thirty carries. Yeah, he's thirty touches. 0:23:48.359 --> 0:23:50.840 There you go, there you go. He's in killing Zere 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.879 and killing his listening. Yeah. Yes, Uh, let's take a 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:57.000 break when we come back. It should Cooper Rush be 0:23:57.040 --> 0:23:59.320 the starter for the rest of the seat. Not just kidding. 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:01.600 That's not what we're talking about next. I'm messing. I 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:03.960 want to talk about the offensive line moving forward. I 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:07.160 just wanted to get out answers. Not a second. That's 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.639 what we're gonna talk about. Offensive line, Tyler Smith. But 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:11.720 Connor McGovern may have had his best game as a 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:13.760 pro yesterday. I'll tell you why when we come back 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:18.280 with more talking Cowboys. 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Uh, second segment here of Talking Cowboys presented 0:28:07.480 --> 0:28:11.920 by Black Rifle Coffee Company Connor McGovern yesterday and going 0:28:11.960 --> 0:28:13.520 back to the point that I was making with with 0:28:13.920 --> 0:28:16.959 Aaron Donalds, Aaron Donald's going to get his film certainly 0:28:17.000 --> 0:28:20.800 did yesterday two sacks. Uh, technically a force fumble, but 0:28:20.960 --> 0:28:23.240 Cooper Rush landed on it immediately. Nate and knew and 0:28:23.280 --> 0:28:25.520 everybody didn't hear this. Nate Newton yesterday said he is 0:28:25.560 --> 0:28:28.240 the greatest defensive lineman to ever played a game. And 0:28:28.320 --> 0:28:29.720 he said he would say it on air two. So 0:28:29.840 --> 0:28:32.800 it's on the record for for Date Newton, best defensive 0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:36.400 lineman he's ever. That's a fun conversation. He's in the conversation. Yeah, 0:28:36.640 --> 0:28:39.040 I said, he's in the conversation. But their names that's 0:28:39.040 --> 0:28:41.160 pop that pop up in my head, be a Cowboys 0:28:41.200 --> 0:28:43.680 and not that you could make a conversation and that 0:28:43.880 --> 0:28:47.960 that's why it's so impactful coming from Nate because he's 0:28:48.000 --> 0:28:51.280 played against some of the greatest dudes ever. Yeah, I 0:28:51.360 --> 0:28:53.480 mean LT comes to mind, but LT, did you count 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:56.320 him as just a linebacker? He's not necessarily in that conversation. 0:28:56.440 --> 0:28:58.880 I think pass rusher, you know, But we brought up 0:28:58.960 --> 0:29:01.240 Randy White. He'sai. Yeah, oh nice. So anyway, I don't 0:29:01.240 --> 0:29:03.600 want to dern no, that's but yeah, Randy White. He 0:29:03.680 --> 0:29:08.080 always talks about um, Reggie White, Reggie White. And uh no. 0:29:08.280 --> 0:29:12.040 He did say another name yesterday, Randall. Yes, yeah, Randall. 0:29:12.120 --> 0:29:14.840 Another another Eagles rusher that I'm blanking on. He would 0:29:14.840 --> 0:29:17.000 just he said there was another gentleman that I guess 0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:18.640 passed away or something like that. He said, had he 0:29:18.840 --> 0:29:21.960 kept playing, he would have been Keith. Keith Russell maybe 0:29:22.120 --> 0:29:23.600 is that his name. I can't remember. I don't want 0:29:23.640 --> 0:29:25.800 to say it'll be It'd be a great conversation to have, 0:29:25.920 --> 0:29:28.400 I tell you that much. But to that point, Recover 0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:30.120 did a heck of a job. He really did. And 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:33.680 the first play, the first passing play of the ball game, 0:29:34.080 --> 0:29:37.280 Zach Martin went one on one Mono imano against Aaron 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:41.280 Donald and he got blown up walked backwards. Now, Martin 0:29:41.360 --> 0:29:43.880 kept his footing like a seven time pro bowler would, 0:29:44.200 --> 0:29:46.240 but he was in the lap of Cooper Rush by 0:29:46.280 --> 0:29:47.720 the time that throw was made, and it was thrown 0:29:47.760 --> 0:29:50.160 into the dirt and it was an incomplete pass. Then 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:54.760 you had a couple of separate plays throughout that drive 0:29:54.800 --> 0:29:57.240 where Donald was head up on Martin, head up on Martin, 0:29:57.480 --> 0:30:00.160 and then he scoots over and he goes to Tyler Smith. Oh, 0:30:00.680 --> 0:30:02.920 and he had his targets set on the rookie. The 0:30:03.240 --> 0:30:07.320 first play sack boom. He ate absolutely give me that. 0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:10.800 So Tyler Smith had his h took his lumps, but 0:30:10.920 --> 0:30:14.320 he responded. Connor McGovern didn't even have a lump. He 0:30:14.560 --> 0:30:18.360 came in there and he bawled out give him the credit. 0:30:18.400 --> 0:30:20.440 Where credit is, dude. I thought he was fantastic. He 0:30:20.640 --> 0:30:22.360 was by the way, I was thinking of Jerome Brown. 0:30:24.960 --> 0:30:27.240 He's a great player. Played against Nay long time. Yeah, 0:30:27.280 --> 0:30:30.600 he he did a great job. And I in the 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:32.680 pregame show, I was talking to you guys about Aaron 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:36.479 Donald and I didn't mention he's an edge rusher too. 0:30:36.680 --> 0:30:39.200 He can just play him anywhere. And they they found 0:30:39.320 --> 0:30:41.880 Tyler Smith and went at him a little bit with 0:30:42.040 --> 0:30:45.960 ninety nine. But yeah, Connor McGovern stronger player than he 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:48.080 was when he came in the league. I mean, I think, 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:50.080 and he had a little bit of help, but there 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:51.960 were times one on one where he was holding his 0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:54.960 own in there. And that's a step forward for this 0:30:55.160 --> 0:30:58.200 offense because I don't know how long Jason Peters is 0:30:58.240 --> 0:30:59.880 going to be out. We haven't really got an update 0:30:59.920 --> 0:31:02.400 on that, but it could be more than one game, 0:31:02.520 --> 0:31:05.240 depending on the severity of that rib injury he's got. So, 0:31:05.480 --> 0:31:07.520 I mean it was huge for mcgovernor. I mean, you 0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:10.520 your two games back from a high ankle sprain didn't 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:13.920 necessarily look great in your week, your last game back, 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:17.200 um last week against the Commanders and your return, and 0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:19.800 now you're asked going against Aaron Donald and you're not 0:31:19.880 --> 0:31:22.880 going to have the security blanket of Jason Peters, which 0:31:22.960 --> 0:31:24.840 was you know, one of the matchups who were interested 0:31:24.880 --> 0:31:27.120 in seeing before the Peters news came out and said, hey, okay, 0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:29.560 let's see Peters versus Donald, center or ceter and Peters 0:31:29.600 --> 0:31:32.400 gets hurt chest injury last week, might miss multiple games. 0:31:32.440 --> 0:31:34.640 We should know more here this week, if not today. 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:38.320 Um So, Connor McGovern it's all on you going against 0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:42.760 the all world talent, arguably the best NFL defender of 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:45.360 all time. What do you do? You hold your own 0:31:46.040 --> 0:31:48.480 You hold your owne. Yeah, So fantastic job by Connor 0:31:48.560 --> 0:31:51.960 McGovern fantastic, fantastic, fantastic And tyler yaddish and I said 0:31:52.040 --> 0:31:54.280 this I said this to Nick last night as well 0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:57.600 as we were boarding to head out from from La 0:31:58.200 --> 0:32:02.160 Tyler Biaddish had a really good game as well. If 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:03.480 you go back and you look at the game, you 0:32:03.520 --> 0:32:05.680 look at the film that he was the one that 0:32:05.760 --> 0:32:09.480 really sprung Tony Pollard on that play, Tyler Beedish, he 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:12.520 went sealed one guy to his left and then as 0:32:12.560 --> 0:32:15.560 soon as he felt Pollard get right right past him, 0:32:15.600 --> 0:32:18.280 he went and sealed the second guy that created a 0:32:18.440 --> 0:32:20.400 huge lane for Pollard and then the rest was just 0:32:20.520 --> 0:32:23.360 on Tony to get it done. And Tony got it done. 0:32:23.640 --> 0:32:26.640 So kudos to not only McGovern but let's let's give 0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:29.440 roses to Tyler Beiedish as well. He had a solid game. 0:32:30.000 --> 0:32:33.080 If not a good game, I'm not as quick to 0:32:33.120 --> 0:32:35.080 go to Tyler Beiodish. There were a couple of times 0:32:37.240 --> 0:32:40.120 in the wrong spot. Yeah, not so fast, my friend. 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:45.560 Uh No, I I thought Conor mccovern consistently won his 0:32:45.680 --> 0:32:49.480 battles either either that or as a stalemate, and that's 0:32:49.520 --> 0:32:51.640 a win for me. And honestly, and if you're talking 0:32:51.640 --> 0:32:54.680 about the offensive line, Beodest didn't consistently win his battles. 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:56.440 He won one, then he lost one, then he lost one, 0:32:56.480 --> 0:32:57.760 and then he won one, and he goes back and 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.520 forth and it's just not consistent. I'm not sold on 0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:03.120 Tyler Beyodish long term. I'm gonna put that out there. 0:33:06.560 --> 0:33:10.240 What I lost not wrong. All I'm saying, though, is 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:14.080 that Pollard touchdown run doesn't happen. If doesn't, it doesn't 0:33:14.080 --> 0:33:16.560 happen either. McGovern seals the edge and then you get 0:33:16.600 --> 0:33:18.480 up to the second well, and then Tony Pollard also 0:33:18.480 --> 0:33:24.200 breaks acceptable. It was accept it was acceptable. Fair. Now 0:33:24.480 --> 0:33:28.920 Tony Pollard, though specifically, continues to make these big time runs. 0:33:28.960 --> 0:33:31.360 And I mean, I know there was a discrepancy in 0:33:31.480 --> 0:33:33.640 terms of the carries, and I'm not actually calling for 0:33:33.760 --> 0:33:36.640 equal carries because I think it's one without the other 0:33:36.800 --> 0:33:38.800 sort of deal. I mean, they both kind of marriage 0:33:38.840 --> 0:33:41.520 each other. But pat, when you look at Tony Pollard, 0:33:42.320 --> 0:33:46.760 his elusiveness and his explosiveness is a weapon, and you've 0:33:46.760 --> 0:33:49.160 seen that throughout the season. How does that continue to 0:33:49.280 --> 0:33:52.960 grow without necessarily putting Ezekiel Elliott in a box because 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:54.680 I don't think you have to in order to have 0:33:54.840 --> 0:33:57.720 Tony Pollard feature. Well. Listen, first, kudos to Pollot for 0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:00.560 having a flu game his flu game yesterday and it 0:34:00.600 --> 0:34:02.280 was funny. I asked him about it in the locker room. 0:34:02.360 --> 0:34:04.000 I said, Hey, was this your flu game? Ear to 0:34:04.080 --> 0:34:07.040 ear grint, he was like somewhat somewhat um For those 0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:09.560 that may not have known, he battled illness. He misspractice 0:34:09.600 --> 0:34:12.080 on Friday, and he said that robbed him of a 0:34:12.160 --> 0:34:14.640 little bit of his energy levels. He got fatigued a 0:34:14.680 --> 0:34:17.600 lot quicker. But to be able to battle back and 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:21.880 still just deliver the explosive play that the Cowboys require 0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:25.120 and expect of him on the you know, an enemy 0:34:25.239 --> 0:34:28.320 territory was fantastic. Now, obviously he struggled against the commanders. 0:34:28.960 --> 0:34:30.840 That's not what you want to see from Tony Pollard. 0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:35.160 But this version of Tony Pollard is the one that 0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:37.960 the Cowboys have become accustomed to. This is the one 0:34:38.000 --> 0:34:41.239 that compliments Ezekiel Elliott and fantastic fashion. This is the 0:34:41.320 --> 0:34:44.640 one that's the lightning to Ezekiel Elliott's thunder. So to 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:47.600 your point, Kyle, I don't think it's about, oh, well, 0:34:47.680 --> 0:34:52.600 let's give Pollard proportionately, you know, more touches in comparison 0:34:52.640 --> 0:34:55.920 to Ezekiel Elliott. It's hey, just giving more touches and 0:34:56.320 --> 0:34:58.200 kind of take what the defense is given you. We 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:02.080 saw not two weeks ago Pollard have a hundred yard 0:35:02.160 --> 0:35:04.880 game and Ezekiel Elliott was still very much involved in 0:35:05.000 --> 0:35:07.640 that game, but it was Pollard's day. There's going to 0:35:07.719 --> 0:35:09.520 be coming up here soon. There's gonna be a day 0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:12.000 where it's Ezekiel Elliot's day. It might be Philadelphia, because 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:15.880 guess who has fantastic games in Philadelphia, Ezekiel Elliott. So 0:35:16.560 --> 0:35:19.600 to me, as long as it's constantly working in tandem, 0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:23.880 I don't really care whose day it is because ultimately 0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:26.480 the dove is all that matters. Does do people feel 0:35:26.520 --> 0:35:28.560 as if Zeke did not have a good day? Is 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:34.000 that the So I think there shouts the slash players, Well, yeah, 0:35:34.000 --> 0:35:36.239 I think it's that if it's not flashing, people are 0:35:36.320 --> 0:35:38.480 looking at this is the wrong way. Yeah. The reason why, 0:35:38.920 --> 0:35:43.120 the fact is because Freaky Zeki is the battering ram. 0:35:43.320 --> 0:35:45.480 This is a swat team. He's the first dude up 0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:48.279 to the door. Boom boom boom, right, bust the door down, 0:35:48.520 --> 0:35:49.880 and then he gets out the way, and then what 0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:51.920 then your boys go in there? Right? They got the 0:35:51.920 --> 0:35:57.160 shields and you can't get in the door unless you 0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:59.400 got the batter and stress right there with the Legos analogy, 0:35:59.600 --> 0:36:02.440 you just right, you're not sitting the second wave in 0:36:02.480 --> 0:36:04.560 there first. You need the first wave to go in there, 0:36:04.640 --> 0:36:06.279 you know. And and Nate said it again yesterday. You 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:08.799 know he's a meat tender riser. That's what his game 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:12.200 has transformed into. You can't expect players to keep their 0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:15.480 same I mean, Zeke has it was never just the 0:36:15.600 --> 0:36:18.359 most explosive guy in his career. I mean, he had 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:19.920 explosive plays, but you can't do you were he was 0:36:19.960 --> 0:36:23.200 never gonna run away from people. Sixteen he did, And 0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:26.360 that's why people keep going back to sixteen hurbling guys 0:36:26.400 --> 0:36:29.759 and how was he? You know what I'm saying something 0:36:29.800 --> 0:36:33.239 like your game, your game adjust, right, Yeah, you've seen 0:36:33.320 --> 0:36:35.640 how many players come through here, and your game has 0:36:35.719 --> 0:36:38.200 to adjust. There's things that players do earlier in their 0:36:38.239 --> 0:36:40.759 career is that they can't continue. They can't withstand that 0:36:41.040 --> 0:36:43.279 they can't continue keep putting that out. Your body starts 0:36:43.320 --> 0:36:45.800 getting older, you start taking on more more hits, you 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:48.120 start wearing down, and guess what, you don't have the 0:36:48.200 --> 0:36:49.520 juice that you want to have. You don't have the 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:51.160 strength that you want to have. So guess what, So 0:36:51.360 --> 0:36:53.719 you start making other aspects of your game that much 0:36:53.800 --> 0:36:56.080 more heightened. You think about ray Lewis. Ray Lewis ran 0:36:56.160 --> 0:36:58.040 it came in the league running around, busting everybody in 0:36:58.080 --> 0:37:00.600 their head. Ed Reid came in there, ripping and a running, 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:02.240 coming to the line of scrimmage, running out of it anything. 0:37:02.280 --> 0:37:04.719 Then guess what, film study that's my advantage. Now I 0:37:05.040 --> 0:37:07.080 lost the step. So now I'm gonna elevate my mind 0:37:07.160 --> 0:37:09.080 more so I don't have to play as fast, right, 0:37:09.080 --> 0:37:12.000 I could make better, more strategic moves. That's where Zeke's 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:14.040 adding in his career right now. You can't have those 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:17.879 same expectations thinking that Zeke's gonna do Pollard things. They're 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:21.160 a great tandem. Understand what they how they work together 0:37:21.560 --> 0:37:24.200 and appreciate and some and Zeke average three point five 0:37:24.239 --> 0:37:25.520 yards of carey. I want to go back and see 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:28.960 some of that is defined short yardage situations too, that 0:37:29.040 --> 0:37:32.480 he's picking up. It's the contract. People mad about the 0:37:32.520 --> 0:37:34.520 contract and all that. They don't look at the little 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:37.040 things he does. And Michael Gelkin from The Morning News 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.400 longest plays so far from the Cowboys this year are 0:37:39.440 --> 0:37:42.120 Tony Pollard forty five yard catch, forty six yard run, 0:37:42.560 --> 0:37:45.000 fifty seven yard run. He's the home run threat. Yeah, 0:37:45.160 --> 0:37:48.200 Zeke does. And people, if you don't like Zeke, you 0:37:48.239 --> 0:37:50.200 don't want to hear about the little stuff. He does 0:37:50.280 --> 0:37:52.320 some of the little things too. If you want to 0:37:52.400 --> 0:37:54.520 quibble with Tony Pollard and maybe why he doesn't get 0:37:54.560 --> 0:37:56.120 on the field as much as maybe you want him to, 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:59.200 look at the sack by Jalen Rams where he crushed 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:02.680 Cooper Rush and there was looked like a miscommunication where 0:38:03.000 --> 0:38:05.879 Tony blocked inside didn't see him coming off the edge. 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:08.680 That kind of thing. That's why Zeke is a third 0:38:08.760 --> 0:38:10.800 down back still in this league, even though if you 0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:13.480 don't like the lack of the explosive place compared to Tep. 0:38:13.680 --> 0:38:16.480 It's a combination. It's a combination of two things. A 0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:18.960 Number one, I think you're hard pressed to find any 0:38:19.120 --> 0:38:21.839 player in nfil history, or more than five I'd say 0:38:22.320 --> 0:38:26.120 that have throughout the the totality of their career never 0:38:26.239 --> 0:38:28.880 had to adjust because film didn't matter. Troy Polamal was 0:38:28.920 --> 0:38:30.759 one guy. He got older, he was like, yeah, I 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:33.279 don't care what film your story, you just can't stop me. 0:38:33.880 --> 0:38:37.160 But it's also the fact that because Pollard is here. 0:38:37.239 --> 0:38:40.800 The Cowboys aren't asking Ezekiel Elliott to be that that 0:38:40.960 --> 0:38:42.680 Homer and three. So if they get it from Zeke, 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:45.320 they're like, oh, great, fantastic, this is wonderful. But they're like, 0:38:45.600 --> 0:38:48.360 we have the other guy who's tasked with doing that. 0:38:48.800 --> 0:38:52.040 So left hand plus right hand equals a full compliment. 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:53.640 Why is? But I guess it goes back to your 0:38:53.760 --> 0:38:56.759 your statement about the contract, like do people not understand 0:38:56.920 --> 0:39:00.520 what he does in the passing? They don't answer question, 0:39:00.560 --> 0:39:04.719 I don't care question for a whole game and see 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:07.360 how well you're passing down. Totally agree they don't. But 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:12.120 it's not it's not feed me twenty sixteen Zeke hurdling 0:39:12.239 --> 0:39:14.520 guys and all that. That's jumping out of the Salvation 0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.960 army kettle. Like that's that's what people compare it all to. 0:39:18.320 --> 0:39:20.719 He is still a valuable and Carlo and you know, 0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:24.160 kudos to Ezekiel Elliott and and his his level of 0:39:24.239 --> 0:39:29.520 football maturity and understanding that he's a third down back, 0:39:29.560 --> 0:39:31.080 a three down back, and he can be a three 0:39:31.120 --> 0:39:33.480 down back. But he's no longer the Bill cow in 0:39:33.600 --> 0:39:36.560 the system that also features Tony Poller. He has absolutely 0:39:36.680 --> 0:39:39.840 embraced the tandem, and yet you have some fans that 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:41.480 are simply like, oh, well, we need to get him 0:39:41.520 --> 0:39:43.600 out of here and poulit needs to be the feature back. 0:39:44.040 --> 0:39:47.160 For as much as Polar delivers, you know, the home 0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:50.440 run ball, et cetera, et cetera, the dirty work that 0:39:50.680 --> 0:39:53.879 Zeke does. If you, I promise you you really want 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:56.640 to ask Polar to do the dirty work. Yeah, for 0:39:56.800 --> 0:40:00.799 three downs every single week, every single year, You're going 0:40:01.000 --> 0:40:04.239 to be disappointed. But if you keep this tandem, then 0:40:04.320 --> 0:40:07.080 you're you're going to be pleased. Zeke is still a 0:40:07.200 --> 0:40:11.040 guy who can turn a one yard run into three. 0:40:11.680 --> 0:40:15.480 Like there's still no wasted motion for him. He does 0:40:15.560 --> 0:40:18.240 little things on tape that you're like, damn, he's moving 0:40:18.280 --> 0:40:20.719 the pile. He's still he's still a beast in there. 0:40:20.760 --> 0:40:22.880 Bottom line, we've got two playoffs right now, right for 0:40:22.960 --> 0:40:27.520 baseball baseball playoffs. Tony Potter is a designated hitter. Okay, 0:40:29.160 --> 0:40:30.719 I asked you to do one thing. One thing. I 0:40:31.080 --> 0:40:33.319 ask you to do one job. Nobody has a problem 0:40:33.400 --> 0:40:35.719 designated hitters until they do what Until they don't hit? 0:40:36.400 --> 0:40:39.120 My problem? So Tony Potter comes to the game, you're 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:41.719 the expectation is we need a splash play out of you. 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:44.800 That's it here here, it is his only job. Here's 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:48.000 my overarching problem with fans that want one or the other. 0:40:48.520 --> 0:40:51.799 Learn how to enjoy two good things at the same time. 0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:55.120 You don't have to choose. So, for example, jay Ron 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:57.440 crist was coming back, the conversation was, oh, with curses 0:40:57.480 --> 0:40:59.680 coming back, what I'm gonna do with Dono Ei Ei. 0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:02.920 It's always this or that, but it doesn't have to 0:41:03.080 --> 0:41:05.880 be at certain positions one team until you actually have 0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:08.920 the certain Tony Pollard is really good at what Tony 0:41:08.960 --> 0:41:11.760 Pollard does. Ezekiel Elliott is really good at what Ezekiel 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:15.520 Elliott does. Put those two together and they formed like Voltron. 0:41:16.480 --> 0:41:19.040 Where do you fall on this? You've been awfully quiet, 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:21.640 I've honestly, that was the best segment I think I've 0:41:21.640 --> 0:41:23.360 ever had as a host because I just kind of 0:41:23.400 --> 0:41:25.040 lofted it up and you guys took it and rant 0:41:25.080 --> 0:41:27.080 with it. I didn't need to say anything, Honestly, I 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:29.440 turned into a fan there. I love listening to that 0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:31.600 back and forth because it is a debate and I 0:41:31.680 --> 0:41:34.080 think it kind of falls in the middle of where 0:41:34.120 --> 0:41:36.400 you guys are saying it has to be a tandem 0:41:36.480 --> 0:41:39.239 back and forth. You can certainly have more of one 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:41.520 or more of the other, but it's better when it 0:41:41.600 --> 0:41:43.839 works like it did yesterday. I think if you could 0:41:43.960 --> 0:41:45.680 draw it up and you could ask everybody on the 0:41:45.719 --> 0:41:48.320 other side of the building right now what their ideal 0:41:48.440 --> 0:41:50.600 running game would look like, it would be Week five 0:41:50.680 --> 0:41:53.320 of the NFL season against the La Rams. 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I feel 0:44:39.320 --> 0:44:43.440 like it's just whatever, let's go fastest, whatever, helmet stickers. 0:44:43.480 --> 0:44:45.080 We do it. Every time the Cowboys get a win, 0:44:45.200 --> 0:44:48.200 we get this helmet it's a full sized Dallas Cowboys helmet, 0:44:48.239 --> 0:44:50.440 and we decorate it with all these smelly stickers to 0:44:50.520 --> 0:44:52.680 scratch and sniff. It's like a gold star, but a 0:44:52.760 --> 0:44:55.520 helmet sticker. And then it's the Ohio State. Yeah, but 0:44:56.160 --> 0:44:58.640 it's talking cowboys version. And of course with the Dallas Cowboys. 0:44:58.640 --> 0:45:01.080 Who wants to start? You haven't already started last week? 0:45:01.120 --> 0:45:02.879 Did you? Did you start last I did not start 0:45:03.000 --> 0:45:06.840 last week? Isaiah started this week? About that? There, Isaia, 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:10.359 I'm all right right, um, get us de realed early, 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:15.279 give us time to recover. I'm gonna go right here. Okay, 0:45:15.400 --> 0:45:17.560 you guys see it his a peach. I don't know 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:19.000 if you can see it on here, you really can't 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:21.719 sell anyways, I'm going with the peach. Um that kind 0:45:21.760 --> 0:45:27.080 of looks like some cheeks. Uh. Connor McGovern kept Cooper 0:45:27.160 --> 0:45:32.880 Rush from being on his heiny handled Aaron Donald and 0:45:33.000 --> 0:45:36.680 party very hand e leach. I'm gonna give you the 0:45:36.719 --> 0:45:40.400 peachie cheekie for keeping him off his cheekies. All right, 0:45:41.560 --> 0:45:45.759 I'm glad we gladly talked that through break because Rob 0:45:45.880 --> 0:45:49.520 goes o, who you got, Kyle conn McGovern. Oh, and 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:53.239 then Isaiah just took him telling him, all right, yeah, 0:45:53.400 --> 0:45:57.120 his defense was not cheeks on Sunday, I'm gonna go 0:45:57.280 --> 0:45:59.160 don'nut just because I don't know. I'm hungry. I didn't 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:03.080 eat on the plane last night yesterday. Dorian's armstrong. I 0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:06.160 can't ask for more. No c rode about him last night. 0:46:07.200 --> 0:46:10.120 Defensive lineman who is not only a starter on this defense, 0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:12.399 but is a key special teams guy that is rare 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:15.840 in the NFL. Like I said, he spotted him ten points, 0:46:16.640 --> 0:46:19.480 signed him to what a two year, fourteen million dollars 0:46:19.520 --> 0:46:23.000 deal in the off season, and uh, that looks like 0:46:23.120 --> 0:46:24.799 one of the best moves that they've made in a while. 0:46:24.960 --> 0:46:29.840 All Right for me, I'm going with the mango, and 0:46:30.000 --> 0:46:32.560 this is gonna be real simple for me. It's going 0:46:32.640 --> 0:46:35.719 to Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons gets the mango because he 0:46:36.320 --> 0:46:40.719 only has two gears. Stuff and go, so man go 0:46:42.080 --> 0:46:46.200 I like it, Man, go the Kyle. You're just gonna 0:46:46.280 --> 0:46:48.799 just take us into the ditch here with something. Yeah, 0:46:49.160 --> 0:46:51.680 wrap up. I wanted to grab this plumb right here, 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:53.680 but it's not a sticker. I fell for it again. 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:55.200 We felt we did this a couple of weeks ago, 0:46:55.239 --> 0:46:57.960 where it was like, it's not actually a stick. Where's 0:46:57.960 --> 0:47:02.240 this going? Um, I don't know. I'm gonna grab this line. 0:47:03.000 --> 0:47:07.040 This is a line. Why are you laughing? Just waiting 0:47:07.120 --> 0:47:09.080 for something to happen here. I'm gonna give it to 0:47:09.160 --> 0:47:11.879 Tony Pollard because he squeezed out a fantastic run there 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:17.600 and got that fifty seven yarder, the touchdown. Tony Pollard 0:47:18.160 --> 0:47:22.200 in the middle of this's gonna get the line. Got 0:47:22.280 --> 0:47:25.239 it done. Cowboys, get it done. Twenty two to ten. 0:47:25.360 --> 0:47:29.040 We have a lot of fun here on Talking. Let's 0:47:29.080 --> 0:47:34.000 just say that thank you for not policy. Everybody at home, 0:47:34.080 --> 0:47:36.840 it's probably like, why are these idiots always laughing whenever 0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:39.239 the segment comes up and trying to throw off man 0:47:39.280 --> 0:47:45.160 because of one day and dirty mind. And we've gotten 0:47:45.200 --> 0:47:47.600 to this point where it's irreversible, but we do have 0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:49.880 our helmet stickers. The Cowboys get the win. They are 0:47:49.920 --> 0:47:52.319 now four and one, and my goodness, it sets up 0:47:52.320 --> 0:47:55.040 a really fun matchup this week with the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:47:55.080 --> 0:47:56.640 We're gonna be here all week to break it down 0:47:56.719 --> 0:48:00.840 for you. On Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company. 0:48:01.239 --> 0:48:03.520 We'll be back tomorrow. We're taking your calls eight eight 0:48:03.560 --> 0:48:05.840 eight eight five five two two ninety seven, Go ahead 0:48:05.840 --> 0:48:08.600 and give us a call tomorrow morning. We'll be here 0:48:08.640 --> 0:48:12.120 at nine fifteen Central Time, alive and local, and then 0:48:12.160 --> 0:48:14.960 we'll take you all the way into that Sunday night 0:48:15.000 --> 0:48:18.440 football matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles. For Chris being, Rob Phillips, 0:48:18.480 --> 0:48:21.200 Isaiah stand back, Patrick no C. Walker. We'll see tomorrow 0:48:21.280 --> 0:48:24.680 with more or Talking Cowboys. This has been a production 0:48:24.840 --> 0:48:28.560 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.